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They have an ep where kirk gives muskets to a group called the Yangs to fight a group backed by the klingons called the coms with red flags. Also the klingons were soviets, romulans ccp, federation was the us.
Star Trek has:

- A world order
- No money, nobody owns anything
- They eat the bugs light
- Spock is literally an “I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE” bugman
- TOS had men wearing skirts in the first episodes, it also had that faggot Takei
- TNG had some episodes that basically touched on transgenderism and homosexuality, though nothing like today’s madness
- Both series had little moments, like occasionally showing a woman or a minority in a position of power just to show how much equality had progressed
- There were episodes where terraforming is a metaphor for global warming


I’m joking that Star Trek is literally globohomo but it was very progressive for its time. Though it came from a more genuine, optimistic view of the future, not to sell you to a pod.

Even the most staunch liberals today are not optimistic about the future because they know deep down that their ideology just keeps making things worse.
 
He is seen by the public and by American allies as pro Putin when that isn't really accurate, he just wants peace and it's clear he only wants peace so he can say he did it and brag about ending the war or so he can spend the money on some other stupid project or send it to Israel.
It boggles my mind how some people are incapable of considering the idea that a man might just fundamentally hate watching young men's lives be snuffed out by the tens of thousands.
 
a man might just fundamentally hate watching young men's lives be snuffed out by the tens of thousands.
10,000? there have been intel leaks suggesting Ukrainian casualties are in the 800k-1 million range.

This war is borderline genocidal and "progressives" are actively cheering it on and sabotaging any attempts at peace.

It's absolutely fucking disgusting.
 
other countries don't have our on steroids regulatory environment plus hypereffective enforcement plus extremely, extremely lawabiding populace
my nigga have you ever heard of europe

The Germans are not efficient, at least not anymore as anyone who has spent anytime in Germany can attest. Obsessed with rules and procedure, yes, but not efficient. Case in point, their trains.

Efficiency is an American value. The Japanese learned it from us, and the Germans never learned it at all.
 
No money, nobody owns anything
That's TNG. They specifically mention money in TOS existing. And as soon as Gene Rod died money came back
TOS had men wearing skirts in the first episodes, it also had that faggot Takei
That's TNG again, and Sulu was a massive poon hound, the actor is gay. Like how Kirk is from Iowa but Shatner is a leaf
 
Vance bringing his own into the fold, we just need him to do a tier list while on a plane trip somewhere:
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The Vance face memes are done. A meme is only memetic as long as it isn't confronted by the source of the meme. It's a zero-summing type of effect that always happens when reality meets an abstraction of that reality. They just seem to cancel each other out. When Obama did the "thanks Obama" line, it died. When the subject of all those old advice animal images came forward, they died. When Biden did the "Brandon" meme, it died. This happens over and over.
 
my nigga have you ever heard of europe



Efficiency is an American value. The Japanese learned it from us, and the Germans never learned it at all.
I find it funny when people always act like Germans are all about efficiency when this was the country where philosophical romanticism was all the rage.
That's TNG. They specifically mention money in TOS existing. And as soon as Gene Rod died money came back

That's TNG again, and Sulu was a massive poon hound, the actor is gay. Like how Kirk is from Iowa but Shatner is a leaf
Star Trek is effectively a what the more radical illuministic proponents of the enlightenment would consider utopia. It isn't communist, which is basically a romanticist idea that all distinctions that makes people unique are inequalities to be abolished. It is still blank slatist like communists, but it follows a more enlightenment liberal idea that reason is absolute and arational knowledge sources are no better than irrationalities, and that once we reach a stage of total reason, innovations have removed the scarcities leading to what the writers would consider "irrational behavior" and the governmental apparatus would have to inherently reshape itself with this new paradigm regarding the acquisition of resources.

From my perspective it's a hopelessly utopian postmillenialist embodiment of the hubris of enlightenment thought and liberalism unmoored from the Scholasticism and theology that originally bounded it to a more humble telos. If Globohomo is utilitarian-sourced managerialist rules based societies, then Star Trek is Globohomo. However in some internationalist Marxist sense that either orthodox Marxists (Marxism-Leninism, Trotskyism, Maoism) neomarxists (Frankfurt school, critical theory, socjus) espouse, it's not really that.
 
The Vance face memes are done. A meme is only memetic as long as it isn't confronted by the source of the meme. It's a zero-summing type of effect that always happens when reality meets an abstraction of that reality. They just seem to cancel each other out. When Obama did the "thanks Obama" line, it died. When the subject of all those old advice animal images came forward, they died. When Biden did the "Brandon" meme, it died. This happens over and over.
That's normie memes for you though, they have a very short shelf life because they get spammed to death. Elon's X being a shitpost stravaganza with premium accounts all whoring out for ad revenue will kill memes faster than ever.

Think of Pepe or Wojak, it took years for both to break out into the masses. those had organic growth.
 
That's normie memes for you though, they have a very short shelf life because they get spammed to death. Elon's X being a shitpost stravaganza with premium accounts all whoring out for ad revenue will kill memes faster than ever.

Think of Pepe or Wojak, it took years for both to break out into the masses. those had organic growth.
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I find it funny when people always act like Germans are all about efficiency when this was the country where philosophical romanticism was all the rage.

Star Trek is effectively a what the more radical illuministic proponents of the enlightenment would consider utopia. It isn't communist, which is basically a romanticist idea that all distinctions that makes people unique are inequalities to be abolished. It is still blank slatist like communists, but it follows a more enlightenment liberal idea that reason is absolute and arational knowledge sources are no better than irrationalities, and that once we reach a stage of total reason, innovations have removed the scarcities leading to what the writers would consider "irrational behavior" and the governmental apparatus would have to inherently reshape itself with this new paradigm regarding the acquisition of resources.

From my perspective it's a hopelessly utopian postmillenialist embodiment of the hubris of enlightenment thought and liberalism unmoored from the Scholasticism and theology that originally bounded it to a more humble telos. If Globohomo is utilitarian-sourced managerialist rules based societies, then Star Trek is Globohomo. However in some internationalist Marxist sense that either orthodox Marxists (Marxism-Leninism, Trotskyism, Maoism) neomarxists (Frankfurt school, critical theory, socjus) espouse, it's not really that.
Yeah the green chick is hot and the gals wear short skirts, you're right
 
I find it funny when people always act like Germans are all about efficiency when this was the country where philosophical romanticism was all the rage.

Star Trek is effectively a what the more radical illuministic proponents of the enlightenment would consider utopia. It isn't communist, which is basically a romanticist idea that all distinctions that makes people unique are inequalities to be abolished. It is still blank slatist like communists, but it follows a more enlightenment liberal idea that reason is absolute and arational knowledge sources are no better than irrationalities, and that once we reach a stage of total reason, innovations have removed the scarcities leading to what the writers would consider "irrational behavior" and the governmental apparatus would have to inherently reshape itself with this new paradigm regarding the acquisition of resources.

From my perspective it's a hopelessly utopian postmillenialist embodiment of the hubris of enlightenment thought and liberalism unmoored from the Scholasticism and theology that originally bounded it to a more humble telos. If Globohomo is utilitarian-sourced managerialist rules based societies, then Star Trek is Globohomo. However in some internationalist Marxist sense that either orthodox Marxists (Marxism-Leninism, Trotskyism, Maoism) neomarxists (Frankfurt school, critical theory, socjus) espouse, it's not really that.
One thing people miss about Star Trek society is that the Federation is Post Energy Scarcity, Cheap Abundant Energy changes dynamics.
 
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